Non-governmental organisation Saving Hands Emergency Aid (SHEA) is currently seeking the public’s help in raising funds for two brothers, who were severely burnt about their bodies during an incident at their Corentyne, Berbice home one week ago.
The injured children have been identified as Besham Sohan, 1, and Gansham Sohan, 4.
They are both warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Burn Care Unit nursing burns to most of their bodies. Their conditions are listed as critical.
The incident occurred around 7pm last Friday at their #48 Village, Corentyne, Berbice home.
Stabroek News understands that the children’s mother, who singlehandedly maintains her six children, was in a hammock breastfeeding the youngest child.
She lit a small fire for the smoke to get rid of mosquitoes when another of the children reportedly threw dry grass on the fire causing it to spread rapidly. As a result, both Gansham’s and Besham’s clothing caught afire.
SHEA in a recent Facebook post made an urgent request for funds so that the brothers can seek medical assistance.
The post noted that treatment for them is not available in Guyana and as such they need to be transported urgently to the United States for life-saving treatment.
SHEA’s local representative Sita Sugrim yesterday told Stabroek News that the cost to medevac them is $45,000 USD equivalent to $9.4M.
“We are asking for your help to save these young brothers,” the post read.
Sugrim explained that a US hospital has since accepted the brothers’ case and agreed to treat them for free.
As such, she said the primary focus now is to raise the funds at the earliest so that they can be medevaced since their necessary documents to travel are ready.
“So basically now we will need to arrange the medevac to get them out,” Sugrim said.
She said the cost does not include other expenses while noting that the brothers will also need to do follow-up treatment.
“Plus all the logistical others, for example their housing, boarding, etc all of that need to be covered. And from our experiences, these cases will have to go back for treatment like three or four times, so we really need to raise funds for them,” Sugrim explained.
Anyone willing to assist the brothers can visit: https://savinghandsemergencyaid.org/Gansham-and-Beham-Sohan or contact SHEA via Facebook.
